Ride Across Portugal - Five stages, over 740 kilometers will challenge the participants not only on their fit but also on their senses by discovering the diversity and history of a whole country, in a week full of emotions, friendship and cycling.
2nd Edition 3 > 9 June 2018
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During stage 4 of the 1963 Tour, 23-year-old Dutch rider Jan Janssen, shot off the front of the peloton and somehow managed to keep away from the sprinters to win the stage.⠀
All the more remarkable was the fact Janssen and his fellow countryman Dick Enthoven had missed the start of the race and were forced to spend much of it time trialling their way back to the peloton.⠀
“Normally, a stage would begin in the same spot the previous day’s stage had finished,” Janssen recalls over the phone from his home in the Netherlands. “I set off for the start in the morning with a Dutch friend on the same team, but when we reached the square where the stage had finished there was no one there! Some spectators said, ‘They’ve left! They’ve gone!’ I was like, ‘Shit! How?’ They said, ‘They’ve gone towards Limoges!’ So we set off, we didn’t even try signing in, we just set off. It was signposted, and then we saw spectators along the route. I think we rode at least 60 kilometres, just the two of us, trying to catch up. After about one and a half or two hours, I said, ‘Look, we messed up, let’s go home.’ But my friend said: ‘No, look!’ In the distance something was moving: ‘Look, that’s the peloton, with the cars behind.’ So we caught up with them and the riders were all laughing, ‘Ah, Janssen, he missed the start!’ I was soaked with sweat. I said to them, ‘wait till this evening!’⠀
“I’d looked in the book and just before finish in Limoges there was a short but very steep climb. When we reached the bottom of it I shot off, I took 30, 50, 60, 100 metres… all on my own. I entered the cinder track in Limoges and crossed the finish line on my own with the peloton 100m behind. The others, Van Looy, Desmet, all the other big sprinters, had to sprint for second place.⠀
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(Source: Rouleur)⠀
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